Meath Partnership is currently working with over 60 organisations across Europe in 16 new and existing projects funded under the Erasmus+ (2014-2020) and by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) of the European Unio. The aim of these projects is to increase the learning opportunities and educational options for youth and adult learners in County Meath. Throughout 2018 and 2019, these projects will be completed and a series of innovative and new educational resources, that can be accessed and used free of charge, will be made available to service providers, trainers and youth and adult learners within the county.

For further information on any of our current EU-funded projects, please email Sarah at: sarah.land@meathpartnership.ie

Below are details of the projects in which Meath Partnership is currently engaged:

OutsideIN places its focus on marginalised adults and is seeking to develop in-service training and educational materials and resources to support adult educators address the needs of the most difficult to access adult groups in terms of lifelong learning.

The aim of ON-D-GO project is to support the economic integration of migrants through the creation of a tailored migrant entrepreneurship training programme with a suite of flexible and adaptable training resources that will help VET trainers achieve their integration objectives and support learning on the go!..

Immigration is not a new phenomenon for Europe and migrant communities have always made a major contribution to the economic development of the Union and to the cultural diversity which characterizes European society today. If EU Member States are to fully harness the potential of this cultural diversity the integration of migrant and host communities needs to be systemic. The aim of the project “Harnessing the potential of migrant women as integration experts”(INTEGR8) is to develop a bespoke accredited ‘Migrant Integration Expert’ curriculum that is specifically addressed to migrant women.

The PROMOVET project aims to develop a new approach to engage low-skilled young people from generations Y and Z in education and training. The project is based on the premise that VET trainers find it increasingly difficult to reach socially disadvantaged and low-skilled young learners through traditional education and training methodologies. As such, the project team aims to up-skills VET teachers and trainers to use social media platforms in their teaching practice with young people.

As part of the VALoR project, partner organisations will design and pilot a training curriculum for adults engaged in the organisation and management of cultural events. The aim of this training programme will be to support festival organisers to strengthen their management skills and also to impart some of their tacit knowledge on younger volunteers involved in the planning and management of cultural festivals locally.

ADMIRE is an Erasmus+ project that aims to develop a Migrant Integration Expert Curriculum for Adult educators, migrant support workers and members of migrant communities in order to promote empowerment, participation and active citizenship of all migrants.

The overall objective of our project is to raise awareness about recent trends and developments in technology which may make jobs in certain sectors less secure in the future; such as the automation of practices in transportation, logistics, production and office administration which may lead to individuals employed in these sectors being susceptible to their jobs being automated in the future. The project aims to inform guidance professionals and individuals in vulnerable occupations about the challenges they will face, to help them to understand the pace at which automation and the “Internet of Things” will lead to changes and also to support them in identifying how entirely new job families will emerge while others will become obsolete. This project also aims to support these professionals in planning suitable qualification pathways to address the demands of the current and future labour market.

GET-UP will develop the first bespoke green entrepreneurship curriculum in partner countries. In doing so, the project responds to the significant development potential within the sector and helps to ensure the relevance of VET provision to the evolving marketplace and the further strengthening of key entrepreneurial competences in VET curricula.

The SHADOWS project has a number of key objectives but primarily the project is focused on increasing the labour market relevance of VET by providing bespoke pedagogic resources that will improve the attainment levels of high-level basic and transversal competences. The cultural and creative industry sector has been singled out for its growth potential as Europe recovers from the depths of the recent economic crisis. Developing bespoke curriculum resources that specifically address potential for graduate entrepreneurs in this important sector and supporting new entrepreneurs in a robust mentoring framework represents a significant connection between VET provision and micro-enterprise owners and an increased responsiveness within VET provision to market demands.

The 'YCARE' project proposes a holistic approach to help professionals who work directly with young people (from 12 to 21 years) to identify signs of a possible radicalisation and thus be able to implement different prevention measures to avoid violent extremist behaviour.

The aim of this project is to undertake research to identify suitable best practice examples from across Europe that will help to support migrants into self-employment. When identifyind and reviewed, these best practices will be presented through an online observatory where they cam be accessed and used by adult education and VET staff working directly with migrants.

The BRAMIR Project proposes a mutually beneficial arrangement affording the seniors target group an opportunity to remain active contributors to society while addressing the growing migrant integration problem. The BRAMIR project addresses two certainties for all EU Member States, namely; the ageing of the population and an increasing dependence on immigration as a potential talent pool to sustain the civic, social, political and economic fabric of the EU. While there is considerable variance with regard the speed and immediacy of these changes within and between Member States, they are coming and will impact all countries in the not too distant future. Therefore, the project proposes the development and implementation of a multi-layered andragogic framework designed for a seniors target group comprising older workers approaching retirement and recent retirees to support them to become migrant integration resources to newly arrived migrants.

This project aims to address low achievement in basic skills through more effective teaching methods and develop basic and transversal skills by using innovative methods in order to provide innovative pedagogical methods, best practice guidelines, and implementation strategies towards scalable, systemic and sustainable use of ICT and comics for student engagement. In addition, the project aims to convince all stakeholders that innovative use of ICT-based educational practices and interactive comics can play a significant role in promoting student engagement, and reading skills; especially in the case of disengaged and/or marginalized learners and to inspire, guide, and facilitate the creation of comics reading and creation cultures and communities among pre-teens and teenagers through the use of Web 2.0 technologies and other forms of digital/social reading, digital storytelling, and “book-talking.” Overall, with the resources to be developed as part of the project aim to describe, implement and disseminate multiple ways in which technology and comics can engage adolescents with math, science, and literacies, and digital story telling.

This project aims to revolutionise career guidance for adults. The ACUMEN project team are of the opinion that traditional career guidance which is often targeted at school-students in classrooms is not fit-for-purpose for application to adult learners who are already active or have been active in the labour market. As such the team aims to provide a wide range of educational materials that are designed and developed with the latest digital technologies and platforms in mind and which promote 'career management' as a new literacy for adults, rather than relying on the practices of career guidance.

Project Number: 2016-1-UK01-KA204-024334

These projects have been co-funded with support from the European Union under the Erasmus+ Programme (2014-2020) and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) of the European Union